Scootering Magazine 397 - July 2019 Back Issue

This month’s Mailbox page is a beauty. Amongst other more usual correspondence, I received two letters from different readers, the content of which I honestly found both hilarious and mind-boggling. One bloke was so incandescent that we had issued a free Power & Performance Supplement with the magazine that he felt compelled to write to me in order to highlight his disgust.

It wasn’t the concept of giving a free supplement away with the magazine per se, more the content of said supplement… power and performance. The second gentleman was hopping mad at the amount of custom scooters featured in the pages of the magazine each month. I was left a tad bemused. Just to be sure I hadn’t got my role as editor of Scootering magazine completely wrong, I took a stroll down into the archives here at Mortons Towers, and looked for the era where we focused the flavour of the magazine strongly around completely standard, un-tuned, stock scooters, which were quite ordinary in every aspect… with not so much as a sniff of custom paint or Don Blocksidge going anywhere near them

I was, of course, relieved to find my sanity intact, and my reputation as editor vindicated, when I couldn’t find such an era of the magazine. If I had found it, I fear it would look a lot like a library of Haynes manuals. Please don’t misunderstand me, we do feature plenty of ‘factory/barn finds’ and ‘concourse restoration’ machines within these pages, because on balance I think we need to encompass as many aspects of scootering as possible: Vespa, Lambretta, auto, custom, street-racer, mod, cutdown, standard, tuned, engraved… and so on.